You Guyses?

This reminds me of when people with a college education misuse the pronouns him and her.

For example, Him and I went to the store yesterday or Her and I are going to the movie tonight.

And I have YOUS. As in Yous got to listen to what she says.

I’ve always been annoyed with people saying berly instead of barely.. Also when people put your when they mean you’re

I knows what your saying. You guyses got it down, definately.

@rowenaz, YOUS GUYS’ perfect example.

Optimism101: The your/you’re thing bugs me, too…

…but I can deal with that one. The phrase I can’t stand is when some of my friends (actually, just one of them) says “for reals” and when she writes it she spells “reals” with a z, as in “for realz.” Ugh, it gets under my skin sometimes.

@allie, I understand. It doesn’t make sense that you care, buy it drives you nuts anyway.

E V O O (rachael ray made this up and I hate it)

I hate rachel too!!!

If I could change one thing about our lovely language, it would be to add a distinctive second person plural pronoun and an accompanying possessive! This is such a flagrant lacuna in our vocabulary that we keep coming up with populist coinages. One day one of them will stick, to the great chagrin of traditionalists. But that’s how languages grow.

Ya’lls are HatErZZZ.

And…

team Rachel Ray!!

I have heard some one said ALLS,(alls i know….)

I’m not a hater. The people I know who say yous are white teachers. They complain that I don’t teach my ESL students English fast enough, and then the teachers reinforce all the opposite of what I’m teaching! You IS. REALLY.

rowenaz I was kidding. But I IS,??? Really? Aw shucks, gee I’m sorry.

Not a fan of back in the day.

The Irish have a great way to differentiate between single and plural ‘you’.....Ye! So instead of falling in to the ‘you guyses’ trap (which almost sounds like you’re talking about those Japanese ladies or the hot springs in Iceland), you just say ‘ye guys’ when there’s more than one…....problem solved!!

I hate “no probs” or “devo” for devastated. I also hate it when people say “was” instead of “were”. As in “Back where you was standing a second ago”.

TheHaight – I wasn’t calling you a hater, sorry, I was just saying that the YOUS is YOU IS. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

My cousin, raised in California, moved to Arkansas in the early ‘80’s. She was sent to the principal’s office for explaining to her teacher that “yeller” was not the correct pronunciation of “yellow.”
The principal honored my aunt and uncle’s request to change classrooms.

“It’s YELLER! SAY IT! YELLER!”

you’re the yeller…

lately I’ve been catching myself saying idient as isn’t it

Its okay Rowenaz! :) it’s hard to understand stuff over text sometimes. But thanks for clearing that up.

What’s the whole EMO revolution? Is it so wrong to be emotional? Now we’ve got the EMO label!

you guyses -> you guys’s -> you guys’ -> OH NO! Silent apostrophe, must destroy -> you guyses

I think the problem is that people are uncomfortable with the silent apostrophe… and for some reason don’t realize that they could just say “what are your favorite movies?” Or maybe they think that’s too vague or something, since the plural could conceivably only apply to the word “movie”.